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10 Best Movies Like The Emperor's New Clothes

If you loved The Emperor's New Clothes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
High-Rise

High-Rise

2015★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control....

#2
Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction

2006★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life....

#3
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to ...

#4
Back in Time

Back in Time

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Cast, crew and fans explore the 'Back to the Future' time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture—30 years after Marty McFly went back in time....

#5
Russell Brand: Messiah Complex

Russell Brand: Messiah Complex

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Recorded live at Hammersmith Apollo, Russell questions the values of heroes and leaders. ‘Messiah Complex’ is a disorder where sufferers think they might be the messiah. Did Jesus ...

#6
Look Who's Back

Look Who's Back

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Emperor's New Clothes for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon....